Name this Texas legend..?!
Question: Born in Monahans, Texas, on November 6, 1941, he grew up in a home where the gift of a pocketknife was a rite of passage and poetry was read aloud. At age 16 he moved to Rockport, on the Texas Gulf Coast. Instructed by his father's law partner, he learned to play on a $12 Mexican guitar and the first songs he learned were mostly in Spanish. Moving to Houston, he began his career during the "folk scare" of the 1960s. Fascinated by Texas blues legends like Mance Lipscomb and Lightnin' Hopkins and steeped in the cultural sauce piquante of his border state, he played traditional folk tunes on the same Austin-Houston club circuit as Townes Van Zandt and Jerry Jeff Walker.Nashville legend Johnny Cash, who then had been topping the charts for 20 years, was among the first Nashville recording artists to embrace his music. His interpretation of "Texas, 1947" was a 1975 chart hit, followed in 1977 by "The Last Gunfighter Ballad."
Answers: Born in Monahans, Texas, on November 6, 1941, he grew up in a home where the gift of a pocketknife was a rite of passage and poetry was read aloud. At age 16 he moved to Rockport, on the Texas Gulf Coast. Instructed by his father's law partner, he learned to play on a $12 Mexican guitar and the first songs he learned were mostly in Spanish. Moving to Houston, he began his career during the "folk scare" of the 1960s. Fascinated by Texas blues legends like Mance Lipscomb and Lightnin' Hopkins and steeped in the cultural sauce piquante of his border state, he played traditional folk tunes on the same Austin-Houston club circuit as Townes Van Zandt and Jerry Jeff Walker.Nashville legend Johnny Cash, who then had been topping the charts for 20 years, was among the first Nashville recording artists to embrace his music. His interpretation of "Texas, 1947" was a 1975 chart hit, followed in 1977 by "The Last Gunfighter Ballad."
My old friend... Guy Clark !!!!
Marty Robbins (?)
Is it by chance Freddy Fender?
Guy Clark
yep it's Guy Clark. the sleepy little west Texas town of Monahans,Texas is only 65 miles from where I live.